Authentic Indian chicken and egg recipes
How to make achari egg curry? Imagine that one morning you wake up in New York to find that it has snowed all night. The stairway looks like a death trap, but you brave it anyway to find that your car is buried in snow. Or maybe you wake up in Kolkata or Mumbai on a…
I have been getting a lot of requests for onion-less sauces lately. Apparently, people really hate to cook with onions. I get it. Adding onions to a recipe (especially Indian) has two major draw backs. Firstly, onion based sauces demand constant attention, because stepping away from the stove for even 5 minutes could mean the death of a sauce….
What is “chilli chicken”? The Indian Chili chicken or Chilli chicken is an Indo-Chinese dish––crispy batter fried nuggets of chicken cooked in soy sauce flavored with garlic and ginger and a whole lot of fresh Thai green chilies. It can be either dry chilli chicken to be had as an appetizer or hors d’oeuvres, or…
Kolkata’s famous chicken chaap recipe Bengal, especially Kolkata, has a vibrant food scene marked by an assortment of complex food cultures and practices, a site where complex rhetorical struggles between the national and the colonial are played out. Here, cooking and eating transcend their functionality and become a site where the differences between cultures are…
England and India are still engaged in a (tug-of-)war over a very important and interesting question. The internet is also divided on this issue. There are forums after forums devoted to its discussion, and to the analyses of the various possible answers. The question that has generated so much interest and disagreement among its commentators–even more so…
For weeks I have been putting this recipe off, being completely at a loss for an appropriate story. I have no recollection of how or when I came across this recipe, when I made it first, or where I ate it first. All I could string together in the last couple of weeks are the three…
What Christmas/winter holiday(s) means to you depends on where you come from. I am a Calcuttan, therefore, to me the winter holidays mean local club picnics (with their typical hard boiled eggs, bananas and bread in brown-paper-bags-breakfast), crowding outside of Nahoum’s or Flurys to buy fruitakes, the ritualistic stroll around New Market area, pushing through the madding…
Easy chicken malai kebab recipe You hear chicken malai kebab and your mouth lights up in anticipation. Charred and succulent pieces of meat with their bold and sharp layers of spices accompanying drinks, raitas, relishes, and mounds of fluffy rice–kebabs are absolute bliss. But, to an Indian, the word kebab incites much more than its deliciousness. Kebabs evoke stories…
It’s 10:15 a.m on what appears to be a rather uneventful day. Â The sky is gloomy, uncharacteristic for an April Texas, and my house is empty (Husband is away for a few days). On days such as this I like to spend my time around the kitchen. There’s something about the aroma of warm spices,…
Calcutta Mutton Biryani Recipe Two of my friends from school visited us last weekend. I saw them after thirteen years!!! The plan for the weekend was to immerse ourselves in the nostalgic retelling of old stories, reliving old school days, drinking bottles of old wines, and celebrating traditional Calcutta recipes (that’s where we went to…